Karlstraße is a street of semi-detached houses on a miners’ housing estate in the Ruhr District. The residents’ homes are “living” houses, constantly sinking due to the mining works. Whereas rainwater used to flow to the left ten years ago, today it flows to the right. The situation led to many of the homes being sold in recent years and their new inhabitants redecorated them. So you see one semi-detached house with a newly painted, colourful façade whilst the other house in the pair still has the patina of decades past. The result is a bizarre, divided housing landscape, which photographer Yolanda vom Hagen has documented in her pictures.

A site-specific performance by the Swiss-German theatre collective Rimini Protokoll. As makers of a theatre that observes and analyses contemporary society they prefer working with "real people" instead of actors to investigate little-known and much ignored aspects of everyday work and life. In a specially converted truck the audience sits where cargo used to be. Two Chinese truck drivers take the audience on a simulated journey from Shangqiu to Shanghai. On the way their stories and music will synchronize container yards, truck parking areas, shipping companies and motorways in a 3D-road movie tracing the flow of goods.